The 19-year-old accused of shooting and killing eight people inside and around the FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, was reportedly a part of the adult following of My Little Pony.
IIRC the whole brony trend started on 4chan. Someone wrote an article about the show being "an admission of defeat" for the animation industry. People on 4chan's /co/ (comics and cartoons) board criticized the article. Some people watched the show and decided it was good, and posted about it, and then it gained a fanbase of teen and adult men who were not the target audience. The problem, of course, being that it picked up this fanbase on 4chan. So it started with a fanbase with a lot of diet nazis. This of course isn't an indictment of every brony since it obviously spread to places that aren't 4chan with varying levels of assimilation. There's a lot of shared spaces with the furry fandom, for example (the only example I'm familiar with), which is largely left-leaning and notably isn't allowed on 4chan, but largely furries and bronies keep somewhat separate in those spaces. I'd be comfortable saying that most furries consider bronies to be kind of weird.
There's definitely a subset of alt psychos in the mlp fandom. The initial fandom found it's start in 4chan after all. I'm pretty sure it's not super prevalent but I tend to curate my mlp fandom experience very tightly because of those weirdos. There was an incident a while back where a popular booru decided to ban nazi/alt right content and a bunch of people got pissy, citing it violated their free speech or whatever bs.
I just can't comprehend someone liking cutesy-wootsy ponies and being a nazi, what goes on in they're heads...
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IIRC the whole brony trend started on 4chan. Someone wrote an article about the show being "an admission of defeat" for the animation industry. People on 4chan's /co/ (comics and cartoons) board criticized the article. Some people watched the show and decided it was good, and posted about it, and then it gained a fanbase of teen and adult men who were not the target audience. The problem, of course, being that it picked up this fanbase on 4chan. So it started with a fanbase with a lot of diet nazis. This of course isn't an indictment of every brony since it obviously spread to places that aren't 4chan with varying levels of assimilation. There's a lot of shared spaces with the furry fandom, for example (the only example I'm familiar with), which is largely left-leaning and notably isn't allowed on 4chan, but largely furries and bronies keep somewhat separate in those spaces. I'd be comfortable saying that most furries consider bronies to be kind of weird.
There's definitely a subset of alt psychos in the mlp fandom. The initial fandom found it's start in 4chan after all. I'm pretty sure it's not super prevalent but I tend to curate my mlp fandom experience very tightly because of those weirdos. There was an incident a while back where a popular booru decided to ban nazi/alt right content and a bunch of people got pissy, citing it violated their free speech or whatever bs.
I just can't comprehend someone liking cutesy-wootsy ponies and being a nazi, what goes on in they're heads...